Book, Chapter

 1        1, Pref   |         of the world." No man of sense, however, would say that
 2        1, V      |       men by the finger of God a sense of the duty that is required.~
 3        1, XII    |       understood in a symbolical sense by the more superficial
 4        1, XLVIII |          being in the air; and a sense of taste which can make
 5        1, XLVIII |         the world; and so also a sense of smelling, which scents
 6        1, XLVIII |        of Christ unto God; and a sense of touch, by which John
 7        1, XLVIII |         as I think, in a twofold sense,--freeing him not only,
 8        1, LXI    |       wickedness is in a certain sense blind, and would desire
 9        1, LXI    |      King indeed, but not in the sense that Herod supposed, but
10        1, LXI    |        that He was a king in the sense that the multitude expected,
11        1, LXIX   |      multitude, and in a certain sense a body of god. But he disbelieves
12        2, II     |        cleared up in a spiritual sense, and these the disciples
13        2, VI     |   themselves, as not resting the sense of these Words in the plain
14        2, XX     |       uses "by all means" in the sense of "simple futurity," which
15        2, LXI    |      might be seen by the eye of sense, resembling in all respects
16        2, LXXII  |          of hearing than that of sense. And when the speaker will
17        3, IV     |         the investigation of the sense of the prophetic writings
18        3, XL     | deserving of worship, yet common sense forbids the supposition
19        3, XLVII  |       themselves about things of sense alone, and regarding these
20        3, XLVII  |        who ascend from things of sense to those of the understanding,
21        3, LVII   |        be teachers not devoid of sense who lead and drag the young
22        4, XII    |          is used in a figurative sense. For God "comes down" from
23        4, XIII   |       material, and an object of sense. But if, on the contrary,
24        4, XIII   |       occur (to inquire) in what sense the word "fire" is to be
25        4, XIII   |           consuming fire" in the sense in which we have taken the
26        4, XVII   |       understood in their proper sense, appear far more worthy
27        4, XVIII  |         we would inquire in what sense the term "change" is used.
28        4, XXXVII |       discourse to point out the sense in which these words were
29        4, XXXVII |        and not understanding the sense in which the expression
30        4, XXXVIII|  explained allegorically, in the sense that she was given by Jove
31        4, XLIV   |          receive in a figurative sense the commandment which enjoins, "
32        4, LXI    |          be termed in a peculiar sense immortal, because it does
33        4, LXXII  |      wrath" be understood in the sense of "passion?" or how can
34        4, LXXXVII|       writings which express one sense when taken literally, but
35        5, XII    |        mankind, not in any local sense, but through His providence;
36        5, XVI    |     unable to see distinctly the sense of each particular passage,
37        5, XXXVI  |      that each one ought, from a sense of what is becoming, to
38        5, XL     |       which is law in the proper sense, then it is this which is
39        5, XLIV   |      visible nature: and in this sense we understand the words, "
40        6, XV     |         is of humble mind in the sense of the prophet, while "walking
41        6, XLIV   |          said to him in a mystic sense: "Thou hast fallen into
42        6, LV     |     termed "evil." It is in this sense that Job says to his wife: "
43        6, LXI    |          improper and figurative sense, so that we may translate
44        6, LXII   |        Scripture, in a spiritual sense. Moreover, he alleges that "
45        6, LXII   |        knowledge" in a universal sense, then there are many things
46        6, LXIV   |         is taken in a figurative sense, or His "anger," or any
47        6, LXX    |        which are the objects of "sense;" as when Paul says, "But
48        6, LXXII  |         ever;" not observing the sense in which we say that our
49        7, XI     |     Celsus affirms, "there is no sense at all." Neither is it true
50        7, XII    |        unwise is as talk without sense," and have learnt "to be
51        7, XVIII  |      they understood them in the sense which Celsus gives to them.
52        7, XX     |       that the law has a twofold sense, --the one literal, the
53        7, XX     |          Of the first or literal sense it is said, not by us, but
54        7, XX     |    whereas, taken in a spiritual sense, the same prophet makes
55        7, XX     |          the letter" the literal sense, and by "the spirit" the
56        7, XX     |        the spirit" the spiritual sense of Scripture. We may therefore
57        7, XXI    |          knowledge." And in this sense we "charge them that are
58        7, XXI    |    riches are to be taken in the sense we have just explained,
59        7, XXII   |      promptings of evil. In this sense also we understand the language
60        7, XXIII  |      word "rich" in its simplest sense, as referring to the man
61        7, XXIII  |       the man who is rich in the sense of abounding in false notions,
62        7, XXIII  |         But we would ask in what sense he speaks of a wise man.
63        7, XXIII  |          one who is wise in that sense. But if by wisdom any one
64        7, XXIV   |          more simple and obvious sense. as teaching us not to be
65        7, XXXI   |       things from the objects of sense, which have no true reality,
66        7, XXXIV  |          they speak of a diviner sense, which is very different
67        7, XXXIV  |          that there is a diviner sense than the senses of the body,
68        7, XXXIV  |         Thou shalt find a divine sense."~
69        7, XXXVII |       could distinguish between "sense" and "reason," between "
70        7, XXXVII |     reason," between "objects of sense" and "objects of the reason?"
71        7, XXXVII |        short with the objects of sense. And thus, while Christians
72        7, XXXIX  |        were opened." The eyes of sense were then opened, which
73        7, XXXIX  |        which see are the eyes of sense, which His words do render
74        7, XXXIX  |        sharpened, and the eye of sense closed; so that each one,
75        7, XXXIX  |        quickened, and the eye of sense darkened, sees and knows
76        7, XLIII  |      word "heard" is used in the sense of "understood;" as in the
77        7, XLIII  |         only so, but also in the sense of the words of Him "who
78        7, XLIII  |        be taken in their grosser sense, is plain from the answer
79        7, XLIV   |  universe, "shutting the eyes of sense, and raising upwards the
80        7, XLVI   |        and things apprehended by sense; and they connect truth
81        7, LV     |          calls "the cup" bears a sense which we have elsewhere
82        7, LV     |    taking it in its more obvious sense, consider if it be not a
83        8, IV     |        adding, as if with a deep sense of the marvellous and mysterious
84        8, V      |          But indeed they do in a sense separate themselves and
85        8, VIII   |        different places. If this sense does not suit his purpose,
86        8, XV     |       over whom we say that in a sense He does not rule, since
87        8, XV     |       obedience; but, in another sense of the word, He rules even
88        8, XVI    |         are unseen by the eye of sense. These remarks of Celsus
89        8, XIX    |        temples spoken of in this sense, the best and most excellent
90        8, XXVI   |        laws at all in the proper sense of the word, or else the
91        8, LXVII  |      these myths in a figurative sense, and consider Minerva as